Galagan Hryhoriy

(1819 - 1888). After graduating from the course at St. Petersburg University for law school, enlisted in Chernihiv chamber of the State Property. He was commissioned to investigate the situation of farmers affected by crop failure, and to distribute benefits of bread and money the most needy. "This first step was - noticed one of his biographers, - like a prototype of his future social activities". From 1848 to 1851. Galagan was a leader of the nobility Borznenskogo district, Chernigov province, from 1851 to 1854, Mr.. - Conscientious judge of the same province. In 1858, Mr.. Galagan was appointed a member of the Government in Chernigov Committee on the welfare of serfs. In 1859, Mr.. was invited to an expert in the drafting committee, preparatory to the liberation of the peasants, and after the implementation of the peasant reform was appointed a member of the provincial government in Chernigov on Peasant Affairs. From 1864 to 1865. was vice-president of the temporary committee on verification of charters in the south-western region. Later consisted Prylutskaya county Poltava province chairman of the Congress of magistrates and Marshal of the Nobility. In 1881, Mr.. participated as one of the "knowledgeable people" in developing the issue of lowering the purchase payments, and in 1882, Mr.. - Issues liquor and Resettlement. In 1883, Mr.. appointed member of the State Council, attended the department of laws. As the clerk and public figure, Galagan done a lot for the mental development and material welfare of the population. It opened in the county Prylutskaya Sokirenetskoe savings and loan association, in 1876, Mr.. made a detailed plan for primary education in Prylutskaya County, which was fully adopted by local boards and through which Priluki county on the number of students served in the 1870's and 80's of the first in the province. In the same year, Galagan donated the estate in the village Dekhtyar for the establishment of a vocational school, still exists today. In Kiev, opened on October 1, 1871, exclusively on the means Galagan (in memory of his deceased son, Paul), Pavel Galagan College - a private institution. They were published: "Collection of ethnographic materials, . on Little Russia "," Yuzhnoruski pisni thirds majority "(published in 1857)," A detailed description of the Little Russian vertepnoy drama in the form, . it is preserved in the village Sokirentsah "(Kiev Olden" for 1882),
. His article: "On the declension of names Little Russia" was published in "Russian Archives" (1869, N 10). - See. Mishchenko, "Graph P. Galagan "(Kiev, 1888).